English cricketer Eddie Paynter at the SCG

England wicket-keeper Godfrey Evans celebrates catching Bert Sutcliffe off the bowling of spinner Jack Young for 32 in his first innings. 1st Test England v New Zealand at Headingley, Leeds, 1949.

David Gower the Wisden Cricketer of the Year 1979

Golden Boy David Gower in 1978

England v Australia in final test at the Oval in August 1968

Geoff Boycott walks out to open with Fred Titmus, England v Australia, Nottingham, June 5 1964

Australian Ken Mackay was awarded an MBE while playing his final Test

Geoff Boycott was run out in his final innings having amassed over 48,000 first-class runs in his career.

Hanif Mohammad in action in the first Test against England, 1954

Geoff Boycott wakes the crowd as he reaches a painstaking double hundred on his way to 246, England v India, 1st Test, Headingley, June 9, 1967